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Composition 2 Research Guide

Citing and Plagiarism

Citing Your Sources

Your instructor will let you know which citation style to follow for citing your sources [MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.]

  • Maintain a record of all your source's citation elements [author, title, publication information, etc.]

  • Compare your citation elements with an example and replicate the format exactly [element order, punctuation, capitalization, spacing, & font]

Source examples may be found online:

BILT: Basic Information Literacy Tutorial